Os efeitos das narrativas memorialísticas entre a clínica, a política e a estética

Abstract

This research seeks to question the effects arising from the intervention methodology of Narrative Memoir towards the young participants of the Adolescencias e Leis research. The latter was developed over the years 2016 and 2018 by the Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Social Tie (PSILACS - Psicanálise e Laço Social no Contemporâneo) research group of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and aimed to investigate the subjective conditions that favors tying and untying young people to crime. For this purpose, Narrative Memoir was adopted as a resource for data collection, an innovative intervention methodology in the field of psychoanalytical studies, focused on the investigation of social phenomena and divided into three stages: Narrate, Create and Share. In the first stage, young people, mostly black, living in the urban peripheries of Belo Horizonte, were invited to tell their life stories about free association. These narratives were recorded and later handed over to invited artists from the PSILACS group who created works of art from the narrated life stories. In the Creation stage we added the theoretical constructions developed by the researchers of the group after listening to the young people. The Sharing stage, in turn, was destined to build a connection among the young people, the researchers, the artists and the produced works of art. That said, the present investigation – taken as an unfolding of the Adolescence and Law research – seeks, through interviews with young participants of the latter, and through the analysis of the narratives and the audio-visual material of the Sharing stage, to discuss the effects arising from the participation of the youngsters in the intervention methodology of the Narrative Memoir. To this end, our path of theoretical research began with the question: “what is an effect for psychoanalysis?” and unfolded on the studies of the articulation between cause and effect developed not only by authors central to this field of studies, such as Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, but by renowned philosophers such as David Hume and Immanuel Kant. The theoretical articulations between art and psychoanalysis, developed by Jacques Lacan throughout the 60’s and revisited by contemporary authors, have also enriched our research journey on the effects arising from this intervention methodology that has the object a as its logical operator.